11/13/2023 0 Comments Make tumblr icons![]() Step eight: put all of your backgrounds on the same lil workspace as your icon (i just ctrl+c, ctrl+v them on the document, but be sure they don’t have a lil lock on they’re layer or they won’t copy!) so now i have all three backgrounds sitting underneath my subject layer Open them into photo shop and crop them into the same dimensions your cropped your subject (for me, that’s 200x200) Step seven: now you get to pick your backgrounds! i found all three of these bad boys on pinterest by typing in “cute pattern wallpaper” These are the settings i use (it might look a little harsh, but icons are so tiny that i really don’t see an issue with it). Then, on your smart object, add the “smart sharpen filter” (filter > sharpen > smart sharpen) (you can convert layers into a smart object by selecting all the frames and either right clicking to “convert to smart object or by selecting all the frames and going filter > convert to smart filters) this allows them to all stay the same while remaining editable, but without letting things like color balance or hue/saturation influence the layers you will put underneath it. Step six: once you’re satisfied with how your subject looks, convert all those layers into a smart object. then i take the yellows, like in the shadows on her neck, and i pitch their hue to be ore red tinted like the rest of the skin, and i lighten it to match i always grab the reds and lighten them first, then saturate back to a reasonable color (it’s always best to have icons be a lil bit bright then say, like, gifs, bc these bad boys are tiny). Then, i’m going to open up a hue/saturation on top of this. i’m going to work with color balance first, adding cyan, blues and a bit of magenta into the midtones, and then go to the shadows and add cyan, blue, a bit of green) Step five: now that our subject is completely removed from their background, i want to color correct (bc good god that shot is yellow). Step four: now that the subject is easily off the background, i add a layer ask (using the tiny rectangle with a empty oval button in the bottom right corner of the screen) and i eliminate everything that isn’t the subject then i add levels, and that’s where i brighten the entire shot and then bring down the shadows again i always start with curves first (don’t ask me why)įor this i’m just bumping up the light and not touching the shadows. Step three: i choose to adjust lighting before i erase the background because i find it easier to erase when everything is a lost more visible. i also usually add a little extra headroom bc i personally don’t like it when an icon is like 80% face, but that’s just me i usually go for 200x200 (they’re icons so they can be tiny and this is just the number i’ve always done. there are a lot of places to find images, this particular one is a screencap of piper from s2e11 that I got off the wiki gallery (which is a pretty good resource if you don’t want to hunt down caps yourself) ![]() Step one: pick your image and load it into photoshop. The wonderfully talented asked if i could do a basic icons tutorial so i’ll be doing a step by step on how i made icons here.
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